Four Typhoons to premier at Aero India!

Four German Air Force Typhoon fighters will premier at Aero India this month at the Yelahanka Air Force Station outside Bangalore. Past Aero India’s have seen F-16s, F/A-18s, Gripens and a MiG-35/MiG-29OVT. This year, the Typhoons stand to be a huge pull! And they’re bringing four!

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Anonymous

Anonymous

only the MiG 29’OVT and Su30 will be the huge pull at a airshow, can anyother aircraft ever be as graceful in the sky as these. Typhoons maneuvarablity can be compared to Mig 21. Rafale or MiG-35, are the only contenders in the MMRCA competition barring politican intervention.

Arun

I dont understand the price logic. Well we dint buy 2 MiG-23 in the early 1980’s for 1 Jaguar, did we ? Havent we just spent $1 billion for 6 transport aircraft. Now with EADS helping us sort out LCA, Typhoon may be a good bet !

In wonder what these four aircraft will achieve as they’re not the latest standard Typhoons of the type being acquired by the Royal Saudi Air Force. Even the Block 52 F-16 coming to the expo won’t achieve much as they’re nowhere near to the F-16IN in terms of on-board mission avionics. Therefore, it looks like only the MiG-35 and F/A-18E/F Super Hornet Block 2s will be at the expo fully fitted with the kind of avionics and sensors (like AESA) that have actually been proposed in their tender submissions.

Anonymous

Anonymous

Come on if we can buy 6 beefed up transport aircraft for $1 billion, then we surely can do with the typhoon. With EADS now helping out us with the LCA…Typhoon could be a good choice. As for the MiG-35……Russian Air Force aint interested in it, then why should we. Think about it.

Wackyweatherman

Why does the supposed IAF Phalcon in the pix look like the old ’70s spyplane, yet the Chilean Fuerza de Aereo owned (supplied by Israel) and Israel’s own Phalcon look like a Hippo? Obviously the nose mounted system is better isn’t it?Any ideas?

Anonymous

Anon@11:00you call me a kid, alright but im a rhino……..at the indra dhanush ’07, i had seen why typhoon is tax payers money gone down the drain(but english chaps are more graceful and methodical than americans and russians but not this aircraft).ive seen both f-16 and typhoon both of them dont meet the mark. India shouldnt even consider f-18, the australian airforce regrets buying it and the counterparts of shiv in australia have crucified them already. remaining 3 aircrafts really qualify as’MMRCA’. Even though gripen is similar to LCA its unique capablities make it intresting.

it should be something like 126 of either rafale or MiG 35 whichever IAF considers fit after trails andconsidering the fact that the MiG 29s would be getting multi role capablity, or the serviceblity of Mirage 2000s. and another 80 of either the aircraft that wins the MMRCA or gripen if LCA doesnt make good process.

If IAF considers typhoon or F-18, these dont come other Medium category, it should go for Sukhois instead, single engine Su35s, i prefer………its furstrating to be a backseater………:)

It actually makes no sense for an Indian Navy Type 877EKM Kilo-class SSK to follow the two PLA Navy destroyers all the way to the Horn of Africa when the Indian Navy already knew the disposition of the warships and their missions. If the sole objective of the SSK is to profile the warships’ acoustic signature, then this can easily done while the warships are either proceeding towards the Indian Ocean via the Bay of Bengal, or proceeding from the Indian Ocean to the Horn of Africa. A typical exercise of this nature would last no more than four to six hours. I’m now more inclined to believe that the SSK could have been an Iranian Kilo-class SSK that had a chance encounter with the PLA Navy warships. Afterall, that area has seen an increasing number of Iranian merchant vessel sightings, especially those suspected of carrying weapons stocks for Hamas via the Red Sea, crossing though the Suez Canal and disgorging their cargo consignments in Egyptian ports. That’s also probably why the PLA Navy has not yet confirmed the nationality of the Kilo-class SSK that it claims to have successfully identified and forced it to surface.

Kannan,India

@Prasunji/ShivWhat’s your take on a destroyer spotting a Kilo/214/Scorpene..with ASW heli/fixed wing..?Is it game over for a sub or is there anything a sub can do except run.. or can it run at all..I am just curious abt tactics in that scenario..

Anonymous

Please to authorities to jump to order one or two ultra modern aircraft carrier constructed in Britain. The price tag not more than 1 billion dollors. Those 2 carriers prepared for England & France; but for limitations of defence expenditure the 2 countries would like India choose one. They are willing to sold to India. It's a opening discussion in their ministry. But our naughty politicians aided by untrustfull bureaucrcy officers sleep well in a 5 star room in a debrety condition to pick the oppotunity. Why the old one that will not survive more than 15 years